Rails 2 without a database?

Rails
1

I’ve written a RESTful web service using Rails 1.2 and now I’m trying
to upgrade to Rails 2.0, but it seems to insist that I have a database
configured. Previously I had the following code in
config/environment.rb and that seemed to be sufficient:

def config.database_configuration
class << ActiveRecord::Base
def establish_connection(spec = nil)
nil
end
end
nil
end

After the upgrade, running rake test:units results in a
ActiveRecord::ConnectionNotEstablished because the abstract connection
adapter in AR was trying to retrieve the current database connection.
So overriding establish_connection no longer appears to work in Rails
2.

Then I saw that adding this to environment.rb would apparently do the
trick:

config.frameworks -= [ :active_record ]

But alas, doing that causes missing dependencies for active_support
and other plugins, so that won’t work either.

Aside from biting the bullet and using sqlite, is there a way to
configure Rails 2 so that it will not use a database?

Thanks

n

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On 20 Feb 2008, at 19:47, Nathan F. wrote:

Then I saw that adding this to environment.rb would apparently do
the trick:

config.frameworks -= [ :active_record ]

But alas, doing that causes missing dependencies for active_support
and other plugins, so that won’t work either.

That works fine for me - i’ve got two databaseless applications.
Presumable you don’t need any plugins which require AR so you could
just remove them ?

Fred

Aside from biting the bullet and using sqlite, is there a way to
configure Rails 2 so that it will not use a database?